Operations, Technology, & Information Management


Spring 2024

Faculty Organizers: Nur Kaynar & Meng Qi
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu

All presentations are held on Fridays from 10:15 – 11:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

DATE: March 1, 2024
SPEAKER: Ken Moon, University of Pennsylvania
PRESENTATION: “Bringing Data Science to the Management of Workforces”
ROOM: B10 Sage

DATE: March 29, 2024
SPEAKER: Kamalini Ramdas, London Business School
PRESENTATION: “Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: Take-up, Substitution Effects and Nutrition”
ROOM: B10 Sage

DATE: April 26, 2024
SPEAKER: Santiago Balseiro, Columbia
PRESENTATION: “Robust Online Allocation with Dual Mirror Descent”
ROOM: 228 Tata Innovation Center – Cornell Tech Campus, NYC

DATE: May 3, 2024
SPEAKER: Alex Mills, CUNY Baruch
PRESENTATION: 
ROOM: B10 Sage


Fall 2023

Faculty Organizers: Vince Slaugh & Nur Kaynar
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu

All presentations are held on Fridays from 10:15 – 11:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

DATE: September 8, 2023
SPEAKER: Elisa Long, University of California, Los Angeles
PRESENTATION: Digital Footprints: How Smartphone Location Data Can Analyze High-Stakes Behavior
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:15 am – 12:30 pm

DATE: September 15, 2023
SPEAKER: Rui Gao, University of Texas at Austin
PRESENTATION: Optimal Robust Policy for Feature-Based Newsvendor
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall

DATE: September 22, 2023
SPEAKER: Hummy Song, University of Pennsylvania
PRESENTATION: Leapfrogging for Last-mile Delivery in Health Care: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall

DATE: September 29, 2023
SPEAKER: Eva Tardos, Cornell University
PRESENTATION: “Learning in Strategic Games”
ROOM: 333 Sage Hall

DATE: October 6, 2023
SPEAKER: Jann Spiess, Stanford University
PRESENTATION: “Fair and Bias-Aware Algorithmic Assistance”
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall

DATE: October 13, 2023
SPEAKER: Guillaume Roels, INSEAD
PRESENTATION:  “Intertemporal Spillovers in Consumer Experiences: Empirical Evidence and Service Design Implications”
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall

DATE: October 20, 2023
SPEAKER: Xiaoyue Yan, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
“Data-driven Decisions In Supply Chains: Contracts, Algorithms and Efficiency”
ROOM:
B10 Sage Hall

DATE: October 27, 2023
SPEAKER: Burak Kazaz, Syracuse University
PRESENTATION: “Retailing Strategies of Imperfect Produce and the Battle Against Food Waste”
ROOM: B11 Sage Hall

DATE: November 3, 2023
SPEAKER: Anita Carson, Boston University
PRESENTATION: “Linking Medication Errors to Supply Chain
Disruptions: Evidence from Heparin Shortages Caused by Hurricane Maria”
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall

DATE: November 10, 2023
SPEAKER: Srikanth Jagabathula, New York University
PRESENTATION: “Nonparametric Demand Estimation in the Presence of Unobserved Factors”
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall

DATE: November 17, 2023
SPEAKER: Auyon Siddiq, University of California, Los Angeles
PRESENTATION: “Platform Disintermediation:
Information Effects and Pricing Remedies”
ROOM:
B10 Sage Hall

DATE: December 1, 2023
SPEAKER: Yuan Cheng, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Attenuating Racial Price Discrimination in the Housing Market: Evidence from iBuyers”
ROOM: B10 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM